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Pakistan opens probe into deadly plane crash that killed 47 08 Dec 2016 - 04:00 pm
Pakistani sit beside the wreckage of the crashed PIA passenger plane Flight PK661 near the village of Saddha Batolni in the Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on December 8, 2016. AFP / AAMIR QURESHI
Chinese man who wrote online post given one-year prison sentence 08 Dec 2016 - 01:48 pm
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Why India's poor are devoted to 'god-like' leaders 08 Dec 2016 - 01:00 pm
Supporters of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaraman light candles in front of her picture as they pay homage outside Jayalalithaa's burial site in Chennai, India, December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Bangladesh arrests five suspected Islamist extremists 08 Dec 2016 - 12:41 pm
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Bodies of 9 police found amid fighting in north Myanmar 08 Dec 2016 - 12:34 pm
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Foreigner ISIS recruiter killed in East of Afghanistan 08 Dec 2016 - 12:24 pm
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Pakistan struggles to identify victims of plane crash 08 Dec 2016 - 12:20 pm
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Earthquake hits Xinjiang in northwest China 08 Dec 2016 - 11:17 am
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Death toll from latest China mine blast rises to 11 08 Dec 2016 - 11:13 am
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24-hour impeachment vote countdown triggered 08 Dec 2016 - 11:05 am
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China should build more nuclear arms to prepare for Trump: media 08 Dec 2016 - 09:55 am
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Dead from Pakistan air disaster to be identified by DNA 08 Dec 2016 - 08:31 am
Pakistani residents stand beside the wreckage of the crashed PIA passenger plane Flight PK661 at the site in the village of Saddha Batolni in the Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on December 7, 2016. AFP / AAMIR QURESHI
In Afghan province, government woos allies against Islamic State 07 Dec 2016 - 08:02 pm
Afghan security forces and elders walk towards a check post in Parun, capital of Nuristan province, Afghanistan November 20, 2016. Picture taken November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Hamid Shalizi
A family challenges the official story of a killing in Duterte’s drug war 07 Dec 2016 - 07:34 pm
The wife and other relatives of Florjohn Cruz, who was killed in a police drugs buy-bust operation, cry as his coffin leaves their home for his funeral in Manila, Philippines October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Pakistan court indicts four, including brother, over social media star’s death 07 Dec 2016 - 06:41 pm
Qandeel Baloch (Courtesy: Dawn.com)
Bangladeshi slum kids work over 60 hours a week to make clothes 07 Dec 2016 - 05:53 pm
A worker hangs clothes to dry on the roof of a garment factory in Dhaka in this June 15, 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman/Files
UN rights watchdog calls on Sri Lanka to investigate torture 07 Dec 2016 - 05:43 pm
An air force officer holds Sri Lanka's national flag as the sun sets at Galle Face Green in Colombo February 2, 2013. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
About 40 people feared dead in Pakistan plane crash 07 Dec 2016 - 05:33 pm
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